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Python Introducing Lists Using Lists Continental

George Gregorczyk
George Gregorczyk
3,028 Points
Posted by George Gregorczyk
George Gregorczyk
3,028 Points

How to solve this excercise?

I do not understand why I am getting 2 errors and I have no other idea how to solve this code. I'm sorry it's my 9th day of learning to code in python and I am getting frustrated over this one excercise.

continents.py 
continents = ['Asia', 'South America', 'North America', 'Africa', 'Europe', 'Antarctica', 'Australia']
# Your code here
for continent in continents :
    print ("*  {}".format(continents[0, 3, 5, 6]) )

1 Answer

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

I'm assuming that you are on the second task

It seems that you are a bit lost. Why are you passing in continents[0, 3, 5, 6] into format?

Solution:

  • Go through each continent. (Well, you are already doing that.)
  • On each iteration of the loop, check if the first letter of the continent is 'A'.
  • If it is, print out the continent.
George Gregorczyk
George Gregorczyk
3,028 Points
George Gregorczyk
George Gregorczyk
3,028 Points

I understand now but I don't know what code to use in order to check if the letter of the continent is 'A'. I tried to use del in order to delete those who don't begin with 'A' but I got some errors.